Congrats! I'll hike UT and ID July 4th weekend and looking for a partner, let me know if you are interested.

Also planning for Granite Peak with gwave47 in Aug!!! So happy to find a partner on the forum, he is 44/50 now.

Labor Day weekend I'll be at ND/SD for some road trip, happy highpointing!

swankman07 wrote:Hello all, been reading a long time. Thought I'd share my plans. Started state highpointing a year ago on a wild hair. Woke up on a Saturday morning February 2011 and thought "what the hell, why not?" Drove from Austin, 8 hours later I was in a hotel room in Van Horn. The next morning went up to Guadalupe Mountains and hiked to the top of Texas, then drove 9 hours back. I was hooked!

Since then, did the Southern Six-Pack in a weekend in May. In July, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. Had planned Wheeler Peak in New Mexico on that trip, but they closed the forest due to fire danger the night of my flight. I had no idea 'til I arrived at the Taos Ski Valley.

Labor Day weekend, topped Rhode Island, Connecticutt, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Turned around on Katahdin in Maine the day after Mount Washington. No gas left in the tank.

This Presidents' Day weekend is my first trip of the year. Flying into Baltimore and going to Delaware, New Jersey, then west for the three-fer in PA, MD and WV. Memorial weekend already booked for a re-attempt of Katahdin and Mount Marcy.

Starting to think about the big western highpoints for the summer already! Going to want to partner up on some of those!

If anyone else is looking to stand on top of Granite Peak this year, SM0421 and I will be hitting the trail head for the SW Col in Cooke City the morning of 8/11. It will be a two day (three if we don't have favorable weather on the 12th) hike/scramble. If anyone's interested shoot us a message and we'll plan on meeting up with you in Cooke City the night of the 10th or at the trail head the morning of the 11th.